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title: But Frivola was in a very bad humour at having been so unceremonious… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Frivola was in a very bad humour at having been so unceremoniously awakened, and declared that she had a pain in her little finger, and that nothing should induce her to come. Who acts: Frivola, Queen, nothing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princes
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 131

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But Frivola was in a very bad humour at having been so unceremoniously awakened, and declared that she had a pain in her little finger, and that nothing should induce her to come.

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**Who acts:** Frivola, Queen, nothing · **What happens:** be, awaken, declare, have, induce, come · **To what, where:** bad humour, pain, little finger, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frivola, Queen, nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:11:131
# text = But Frivola was in a very bad humour at having been so unceremoniously awakened, and declared that she had a pain in her little finger, and that nothing should induce her to come.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	unceremoniously	unceremoniously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	induce	induce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Frivola |  |  | a bad humour |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **awaken** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | a bad humour *not said here* |  |  |  | unceremoniously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | Queen | a pain |  | Queen's little finger |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 5 | **induce** | should | nothing | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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